Every once in a while, I share quotes I’ve been collecting in a rather beat-up leather journal that sits on my desk. Today is one of those days. Enjoy! I know it’s hard to be reconciled not everything is exactly the way it ought to be but please turn around and step into the future […]
It’s Easy To Miss Something You’re Not Looking For
Remember the lovely Naomi Shihab Nye poem I posted last Monday, about missing an opportunity because you’re blind and deaf to it? Well, here’s another test. You get another chance. Wink, wink. Please stop reading by the end of this paragraph if you truly want to challenge yourself. If you read any further, it’ll spoil […]
Karma
Frequently, when I’m stressed about something, I succumb to migraine headaches. Several years back, I went to Mayo Clinic’s Headache Clinic, to see if there was a solution. To my surprise, my doctor said an interesting thing: “Did you know, Elissa, that having a headache is similar to practicing the piano? The more your brain […]
Noticing
An excerpt from Jack Kornfield’s The Wise Heart: “‘Eh,’ Ajahn Chah would peer at me when I was having a hard time, ‘caught in some state again?’ In the forest monastery we were constantly being directed both to look at consciousness itself and to precisely name the states that rose to fill it throughout the […]
Holding Yourself in Kindness
I’m reading Jack Kornfield’s book on Buddhist psychology, The Wise Heart. It’s come at a good time for me, because I’ve been ignoring physical signs that all is not well. You know when you want something really badly, and you rationalize and theorize about how it’s going to work out and how it’s going to […]